Rathbun Land and Water Alliance members and partners include the following individuals, agencies and organizations:

Landowners in the
Rathbun Lake Watershed; Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s Division of Soil Conservation; Iowa Department of Natural
Resources; Iowa State University; Iowa Watershed Improvement Review Board; Southern Iowa Development and Conservation Authority; US
Army Corps of Engineers; US Environmental Protection Agency; USDA Farm Service Agency; USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service;
Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Monroe, and Wayne Soil and Water Conservation Districts; Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Monroe,
and Wayne Counties; Iowa Farm Bureau at the state and county levels; and Rathbun Regional Water Association.

September2009
 Rathbun Land and Water Alliance Rathbun Land and Water Alliance Board of Directors
4th Annual Protect Rathbun Lake Meeting John Glenn, Alliance President, Rathbun Regional Water Association Kim Francisco, Alliance Vice President, at-large member
September 17, 2009 Bruce George, Alliance Secretary/Treasurer, at-large member Sharon Redinbaugh, Appanoose County SWCD
Jody McDanel, Appanoose County Board of Supervisors Kevin Luedtke, Lucas County SWCD
Allerton Centennial Building—Allerton, Iowa Dennis Smith, Lucas County Board of Supervisors John Sellers, Wayne County SWCD
Dennis Ryan, Monroe County Board of Supervisors Ralph Alshouse, at-large member
Agenda Jerry O’Dell, Wayne County Board of Supervisors
Welcome—Rathbun Land and Water Alliance President, John Glenn SWCD District Conservationists
Special Recognitions—Rathbun Lake Protectors
Steak Supper—Appanoose County Cattlemen • Appanoose and Monroe —Margaret Cope
• Clarke—Dennis Schrodt
Protect Rathbun Lake Project Review—Project Staff • Decatur—Kevin Reynolds
Featured Speaker—Walt Hackney, Livestock Risk Management • Lucas—Jeff Matthias
Specialist and Market Analyst.Walt and his wife, Sue, live in Omaha • Wayne—Mark Fehseke
Nebraska and own and operate Hackney Ag Associates
• The Alliance’s Board of Directors consists of 11 members.
• Door prize drawings—Fill out and turn in an evaluation form for • Seven of these members are appointed for three-year terms by the Appanoose, Wayne, and Lucas Soil and
additional prize drawing. Water Conservation Districts and Board of Supervisors and Rathbun Regional Water Association.
• Special thanks to KLC Construction for the use of the rock truck. • These seven board members appoint the remaining four at-large board members.
• The at-large board members are appointed annually at the board of directors’ first meeting after the
beginning of the calendar year.
• The board of directors also elects its officers annually at their first meeting after the beginning of the
Landowner Recognition Program calendar year.

Protect Rathbun Lake Project Staff

Marty Braster—Rathbun Regional Water Tyler Jacobsen—Rathbun Regional Water

Association, Environmental Management Association, GIS Specialist
Specialist
tjacobsen@rrwa.net
mbraster@rrwa.net 641.647.2416
641.647.2416

Velvet Buckingham—Iowa Department Kathleen Chester—Rathbun Land and Water

of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Alliance Education and Outreach Coordinator
Division of Soil Conservation, Protect
Rathbun Lake Project Coordinator chester@sirisonline.com
2008 Rathbun Lake Protectors 641.203.0946
velvet.buckingham@ia.nacdnet.net
The Rathbun Land and Water Alliance created the Rathbun Lake Protectors Program four years ago to encourage and 641.872.1350
recognize the actions by individuals or groups to protect Rathbun Lake.
Susania Ernst—Iowa Department of Jeff Pfeifer—Iowa Department of Agriculture
Each year, the Alliance invites our local Soil and Water Conservation Districts to consider nominating individuals in the Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Division and Land Stewardship, Division of Soil
Rathbun Lake Watershed to be recognized for their contributions to the protection of Rathbun Lake. of Soil Conservation, Protect Rathbun Lake Conservation, Protect Rathbun Lake Project
Project Coordinator Technician
These individuals have been willing to try new approaches to water quality improvement and their nominations were based on
past efforts as well as present and planned actions to protect water quality. Susania.ernst@ia.nacdnet.net jeff.pfeifer@ia.nacdnet.net
641.774.2512 641.774.2512
 Continue information and education The Rathbun Land and Water Alliance’s primary The Alliance uses GIS to identify land in the watershed which is the
outreach which includes media coverage, goal is to reduce sediment and phosphorus delivery principal source of sediment and phosphorus, called priority land.
the installation of additional roadside to Rathbun Lake. Seventeen percent of the priority land delivers 73 percent of the
sediment and phosphorus to Rathbun Lake.

signage, updated project website,

Rathbun Lake Protector Program,
informational fields days and conferences.

Accelerate the application of BMP in 28 targeted subwatersheds show above The primary objective is to apply BMPs on priority land in targeted sub-watersheds Accomplishment of this objective will reduce
including: annual sediment and phosphorus delivery to Rathbun Lake by an estimated 90,000 tons of sediment and 360,000 pounds of
• 173,000 feet of terraces
phosphorus.
• 13 structures
• 2 debris basins
• 45 water & sediment basins

Provide support to
the forage and
pasture research
projects with Iowa Continue to
State University collect monthly
and event water
samples
The Alliance will also use monitoring to evaluate water quality conditions and evaluate the impact of BMPs in reducing sources of
impairment.
Cumulative summary of BMPs installed and load reductions achieved in the 25 targeted sub-watersheds Protect Rathbun Lake Workshop featured a Exhibits were developed
rain fall simulator and the impact rain has on and displayed at various
soil erosion. A forage conference drew more events during 2009
CUMULATIVE (FFY ‘04- June than 100 participants. including the Iowa Water
30, 2009) Conference in Ames, the
Sediment Phosphorus
20th Anniversary of REAP
Gross Erosion Delivery Delivery
Units Reduction Reduction Reduction Lbs./ at the Iowa Capital, and
Practice Installed Acres Benefited Tons/Yr. Tons/ yr. Yr. Utility Day at the Capital.
Terraces 712,620 ft. 6946 8312 11,547 53,103
An Alliance
Water & Sediment Basins 147 no. 457 557 962 4597
display was
Grade Stabilization Structures 79 no. 2449 1552 3858 15,531
set up when
Sediment Basin 10 no. 2175 723 5746 19,682
RAGBRAI
Livestock Exclusion 8 ac. 8 84 32 158
passed through the watershed counties of Lucas, Wayne, and Appanoose.
Pasture & Hayland Seeding 708 ac. 708 2902 983 4394
Grassed Waterways 35.7ac. 546 458 452 2299 Senator Charles
CRP buffer / filter strips 92.7 ac. 110 591 192 1079 Grassley and
Fence 13,022 ft. Congressman Dave
Heavy Use Protection Areas 10 no. Loebsack were
Pipeline 3160 ft. presented with water
Tanks 7 no. quality protection
Brush Management 280 ac. activities carried out by
Nutrient Management 159.7 ac. the Alliance. A lightbox
TOTALS 13,399 ac. 15,179 t/y 23,772 t/y 100,843 lbs/y featuring the Alliance is
exhibited at the Honey
Creek Resort.
The Alliance received financial assistance through the NRCS’s More than 247 landowners have worked with Alliance to
Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP) which apply BMPS to achieve the results above. More than 8,000 The Rathbun Land and Water Alliance Annual Meeting for Rathbun Lake
will provide cost share for landowners who apply BMPs on acres treated are priority land. Watershed landowners provides the opportunity to share water quality protection
priority land in activities carried out by the Alliance.
the three new
targeted
sub-watersheds.
NRCS received
more than 200
proposals for Rathbun Lake Protectors Jim and Betty
AWEP funds Sullivan, Brad and Cathy Reece, Dick
from across the Moore, and the Jim Carpenter family have
country. been featured on WHO Radio’s Big
Show.

Summary of financial support for BMP application in targeted sub-watersheds

EPA IDNR
IDALS-DSC IDALS-DSC WATERSHED SECTION
Total Cost NRCS EQIP WPF/WSPF IFIP INITIATIVE WIRB 319 LANDOWNERS

Cumulative
(FFY 04-09) $6,049,831 $1,640,187 $925,365 $38,495 $460,878 $954,361 $235,244 $1,816,295
Clarke County women landowners gather to learn about
FY 2009 $1,882,403 $338,105 $146,349 $6,000 $0 $802,128 $60,598 $529,220
conservation programs, cost share, and compliance issues.